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| -rw-r--r-- | paramiko/sftp_client.py | 24 |
1 files changed, 22 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/paramiko/sftp_client.py b/paramiko/sftp_client.py index c72d4908..f9b8e693 100644 --- a/paramiko/sftp_client.py +++ b/paramiko/sftp_client.py @@ -310,9 +310,9 @@ class SFTPClient (BaseSFTP): relative pathname. @param path: path of the symbolic link file. - @type path: string + @type path: str @return: target path. - @rtype: string + @rtype: str """ t, msg = self._request(CMD_READLINK, path) if t != CMD_NAME: @@ -324,6 +324,26 @@ class SFTPClient (BaseSFTP): raise SFTPError('Readlink returned %d results' % count) return msg.get_string() + def normalize(self, path): + """ + Return the normalized path (on the server) of a given path. This + can be used to quickly resolve symbolic links or determine what the + server is considering to be the "current folder" (by passing C{'.'} + as C{path}). + + @param path: path to be normalized. + @type path: str + @return: normalized form of the given path. + @rtype: str + """ + t, msg = self._request(CMD_REALPATH, path) + if t != CMD_NAME: + raise SFTPError('Expected name response') + count = msg.get_int() + if count != 1: + raise SFTPError('Realpath returned %d results' % count) + return msg.get_string() + ### internals... |